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What to Do When Compulsive Lying is Destroying Your Life
Nothing good can come from relationships built on lies. You can tell yourself that you lie because you don’t want to hurt the other person. You can tell yourself you lie because something bad happened to you when you...
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Here's How to Tell If Your Nervous System is Dysregulated
The core symptom of early trauma is neurological dysregulation, and it drives almost every other CPTSD symptom (or makes it worse). In this video, I explain what dysregulation is, what it feels like, and how you can...
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Strategies for People With Trauma to Succeed
Work and career are important to success and happiness. But trauma from your childhood can trigger behaviors that block your advancement and ruin opportunities. In this 4-video compilation, I teach how common...
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How to Escape Emotional Manipulation Before It’s Too Late
People who were traumatized in the past can be easy targets for people seeking CONTROL. Has this happened to you? If your sense of self is not yet strong, it's easy to fall under the spell of someone who will TELL you...
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How to Set Boundaries with a Sibling with CPTSD
When someone is wounded by trauma in childhood, it can SEEM to them that other people should be able to make them feel better. They may believe that if only you cared enough, or validated their feelings enough, their...
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Signs That Early Trauma Affects You Now
Complex PTSD (CPTSD) is a cluster of symptoms that can result from chronic, intense, ongoing trauma, usually during childhood. The symptoms include poor mental focus and procrastination, emotional dysregulation,...
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Recognizing and Escaping Toxic Friendships (4-Video Compilation)
Most people won't tolerate mistreatment from friends. But if you grew up with abusive or neglectful parents, you may have been conditioned to hang on for life to toxic friends, no matter what. In this four-video...
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Why You Second-Guess Yourself in When Their Bad Behavior Is Obvious
If you were betrayed in childhood by the adults you trusted, your self-esteem and boundaries can be so wounded, that you become “betrayal blind.” You can SEE you’re getting SO much LESS than you need and deserve in a...
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How Dismissive Parenting Creates Lifelong Problems in Relationships (and How to Heal)
When you were a child you needed the attention of parents – not just for food and shelter, but for your emotions. You need them to recognize and see when you were struggling, and help you navigate relationships, stand...
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Why You’re Hiding Your True Self (and 40 Ways to Break Free)
Being around people, especially if you grew up with trauma, can feel stressful, trigger-y, and dysregulating. People can be mean, they judge you and they make you feel left out, like you don’t belong. For many of us,...
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What to Do When Social Interactions Overwhelm You (4-Video Compilation)
There’s an almost universal symptom that people who grew up with trauma will tend to exhibit - and it’s a sense of disconnection. And even though you crave social connection, trauma often comes with "people triggers"...
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Why You Can’t Stop Craving Love From People You Can’t Have
There is a huge connection between abuse and neglect – especially emotional neglect in childhood – and a painful pattern in adulthood of pouring all the love in your heart into the IDEA of someone you can’t have. The...
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